The Biden administration sent formal notifications to the US Congress on Friday of the intent to sell radars, anti-ship and anti-aircraft missiles to Taiwan.

The total value of the equipment and maintenance contracts adds up to just over $1.1 billion.

This is the fifth – and the largest so far – weapons package for Taiwan approved by the current US government.

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  • Large Bullfrog@lemmygrad.ml
    34·
    2 years ago

    A moment of silence for Zelensky and his bankrupt state for not having a developed chip making industry to make them important enough for those arms.

    • DankZedong @lemmygrad.ml
      10·
      2 years ago

      Man’s got 10+ billion in military aid alone, putting them on the same level as Israel’s military budget. But it does seem their moment of fame is flowing away.

      • Large Bullfrog@lemmygrad.ml
        6·
        2 years ago

        Don’t get me wrong Ukraine is definitely still important to Western Imperialists, just not as much as their missile base and chip making factory right off of China’s coast.

  • HaSch@lemmygrad.ml
    17·
    2 years ago

    Another day, another billion dollars senselessly thrown into a hole by the US. Wake me back up when they quit their streak

  • GloriousDoubleK@lemmygrad.ml
    10·
    2 years ago

    Wouldnt it be so fuckin funny if Taiwan was a military honeypot? Like this whole Taiwan mess was just a ploy for the PLA to have American weapons in Taiwan to use against the US navy?

  • TeezyZeezy@lemmygrad.ml
    8·
    2 years ago

    Why is Taiwan part of China?

    Not bad faith, just am not up on the history and China’s side of the issue.

    • aworldtowin@lemmy.ml
      20·
      2 years ago

      Taiwan has been part of China far longer than US has even existed. During the civil war after the communists won the nationalists fled to Taiwan and set up a fascist dictatorship and said they represent all of China. Up until the Shanghai Communique in the 1970s this fascist dictatorship was the sole legal representation of China, but one of the terms to China’s opening up was the US recognizes mainland China (PRC) as the sole legal representative and they agreed at least legally that Taiwan is a part of the PRC. Since then Taiwan has liberalized politically and economically but are now more than ever a total US puppet. The US has done basically everything short of legally recognizing Taiwan, sending massive amounts of weapons, having US troops training Taiwan troops, despite being a very different overall context in the US eyes Taiwan is like China’s Ukraine. They don’t give a fuck about the people there and will fight China to the last Taiwanese just like they’re willingly letting thousands die in Ukraine. Taiwan is also very important economically, with control over the taiwan strait probably being more important than Taiwan itself.

    • ComradeChairmanKGB@lemmygrad.ml
      19·
      2 years ago

      Taiwan itself says they’re part of China, they just disagree about who’s actually China. It’s the remnants of the KMT, the fascists who got kicked out by the revolution.

  • Mzuark@lemmygrad.ml
    5·
    2 years ago

    It’s the Blue MAGA libs out there, cheering this on, that gets me. Thousands of people who still think Trump is the biggest news in the world are a-okay with starting a war with China for no reason.